Morning trading February 15, page-276

BPH said:

We refer to the further letter from ASX dated 22 December 2022.

BPH provides the following information in response to the further queries by ASX, using your numbering:

1. Question 1: Yes, BPH provided information to the Australian Financial Review (AFR) for the article.
This information is also generally available and has been since 2010 (refer comments below).

2. Question 2: The information was provided to the AFR on or about 5 December 2022.
Mr David Breeze was also interviewed by the AFR on or about 5 December 2022.
It is understood that further general content was provided on or about that time by the media consultant to BPH,
including the information released by the Government in the ADGSM.
It should be noted that the AFR wrote the article and it was not fact checked by BPH before its release.

3. Question 3: BPH provided information to the AFR. Please refer to the response provided to the ASX on 20 December 2022.

4. Question 4: Please refer to the response made by BPH to ASX on 20 December 2022.
BPH does not agree that the articles in the AFR or HotCopper constitute a “public report”


2. Please explain whether BPH was involved in providing information to hotcopper.com.au that resulted in the publication of the Advertisement?
The Australian Financial Review article on PEP11 dated 8 December 2022 and titled Fight goes on for gas project Morrison killed’ was provided to Hotcopper by BPH.
3. If BPH was involved in providing information to hotcopper.com.au, when was the information provided to hotcopper.com.au? Please provide the date and time BPH provided the information.
"The Australian Financial Review article was provided to Hotcopper on 8 December 2022 at 3:09pm by email"

Anyhow HC is mentioned and apparently BPH don't consider that to be a public report,
Which seems like they are just being smart allecs.

Many, many people are on HC,
And surely some are members of the public....